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Kent Fredric
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Even though PDEPEND is "post" dependency, portage still *schedules* PDEPENDS to install *before* perl, where possible. This leads to a fun problem under cross/chroot/catalyst stuff, as it then necessitates you install perl-cleaner, and thus, portage-utils, before installing perl. And portage-utils in turn necessitates a lot of complexity by default, openmp, nettle, ... ssl... And if those fail, which is highly likely, portage doesn't try to install perl, even though it would compile just fine. And in reality, you don't actually need perl-cleaner to have a working perl interpreter. Its just strongly recommended and all systems should have it. Same goes for the virtuals and subsequent perl-core/ stuff, which also isn't strictly necessary for a working perl, at least, not when you're bootstrapping it, as this is mostly our safeguards against various security concerns. So pretty much 100% of what is in PDEPEND should be able to be turned off, if you're an adult and know what you're doing. Globally setting USE="minimal" is not officially supported, but bugs that result from it are welcome. Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.8, Repoman-3.0.1 Signed-off-by: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org>